What is the Sony VPL-VZ1000ES?The VPL-VZ1000ES is a home cinema projector with a difference. Actually, it has three differences. First, its unique ‘lifestyle’ design finds it able to produce huge pictures when placed only inches from your wall, inside a box that looks like a piece of swanky furniture. S

What is the BenQ W1210ST?The W1210ST is a Full HD DLP projector with a short-throw lens and a mode with an ultra-low input lag that BenQ believes makes it ideal for gaming. And you know what? Having spent far more time gaming on the W1210ST than I could ever reasonably excuse as "work", I think BenQ has

What is the BenQ W8000?The £2,999 W8000 is a Full HD DLP projector designed with serious home cinema fans in mind. Key attractions of this mid-range model include a choice of lenses, unusually potent video processing, and independent certification of its performance by THX.However, while it oozes qualit

What is the LG PH450UG Minibeam projector?A huge image in a small space – that's you get with LG’s ultra short throw PH450UG Minibeam DLP LED projector.Traditional projectors typically need space: a large room with a throw distance of two to three metres will earn you an image of 100-inches or more. Ult

What is the BenQ X12000?It might have taken far longer to get here than it was supposed to, but we’ve finally got our hands on the first 4K consumer DLP projector: the BenQ X12000. This is a big deal for fans of DLP’s typical contrast and colour advantages, so although the technology the X12000 uses to

What is the Acer V9800 projector?Acer’s V9800 is one of the first 4K UHD DLP home cinema projectors to land at TrustedReviews – and its a hugely exciting advert for the upstart technology.It’s taken a while for the DLP camp to come up with a 4K projection solution. Manufacturers have had to wait for Tex

What is the JVC DLA-Z1?Following a few years making excellent ‘pseudo’ 4K projectors for the home, JVC has finally taken the full native 4K plunge with the DLA-Z1.This is huge news in itself for the legions of fans – myself included – that JVC has earned over the years for its wonderfully contrast-rich

What is the Epson EH-TW9300W?The EH-TW9300W is a £3,300 LCD projector. That may sound steep, but it offers a lot. It plays both 4K and high dynamic range (HDR) signals, and also ships with a wireless HD system that lets you beam pictures to the projector – without with the usual long cable runs.Add to t

Hands on with the Sony VPL-VZ1000ESUnless you’re some sort of vitamin D-starved oddball, happy to live in a state of more or less perpetual darkness, projectors don’t generally make great living room displays. Ambient light and projection just don’t go hand in hand.Sony is out to change this with the VP

What is the Optoma GT1080Darbee?Optoma’s £780 GT1080Darbee is unique in the projector world for its combined focus on video-gaming and high-level video processing – two features that don’t go together at all.However, it really does make its unique combination work, and in doing so establishes itself as

What is the Epson EH-TW7300?The TW7300 is an LCD projector designed from the ground up for home cinema use. It’s the long-awaited replacement for the popular EH-TW7200, and introduces support for both 4K and HDR (high dynamic range) playback.The 4K support isn’t truly native; it’s a pseudo-4K implementa

What is the BenQ TH530?If you’re in the market for a compact and eye-catchingly affordable home entertainment projector, the BenQ TH530 could be just what you need.Despite costing just £530, it produces pictures bright enough to watch in a little ambient light but rich enough in contrast to support seri

What is the Acer H6517ST?The Acer H6517ST is a short-throw projector, capable of delivering a 100-inch image from a throw distance of less than 4ft. This makes it easier to place away from your seating position than most projectors, and removes the need for the long cable runs so often associated with p

What is the Sony VPL-VW550ES?While other projector brands still can’t get their native 4K act together, the VPL-VW550ES represents Sony’s third generation of 4K projectors.It benefits considerably from that experience in terms of both the level of picture quality it achieves, and in the way it takes a m

What is the Aiptek MobileCinema i70?The i70 is an intriguing attempt to inject new life into the Pico (or pocket) projector market.It’s smaller than even most Pico projectors, fitting easily into a trouser pocket, yet includes full Wi-Fi connectivity with both computers and Apple/Android mobiles. It can

What is the Optoma ALR100?The ALR100 is an £899, 100-inch projection screen that’s specially designed to be used in ambient light. This makes it potentially much more straightforward for movie and sports fans to install a big-screen projector system in a typical living-room environment.Optoma ALR100 – D